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6/17/2005 By Blogger 7 Comments

Arthur Ashe, the legendary Wimbledon player was dying of AIDS. From world over, he received letters from his fans, one of which conveyed: “Why does GOD have to select you for such a bad disease”?

To this Arthur Ashe replied: The world over

5 Crore children start playing tennis,

50 Lakh learn to play tennis,

5 Lakh learn professional tennis,

50,000 come to the circuit,

5000 reach the grand slam,

50 reach Wimbledon,

4 to semi final,

2 to the finals,

When I was holding a cup I never asked GOD “Why me?”

And today in pain I should not be asking GOD “Why me?”

“If I don’t ask ‘why me?’ after my victories, I cannot ask ‘why me?’ after my setbacks and disasters,” he wrote. “I also do not waste time pleading with God to make me well. I was brought up to believe that prayer is not to be invoked to ask God for things for oneself or even for others. Rather, prayer is a medium through which I ask God to show me God’s will, and to give me the strength to carry out that will.”

Be thankful to GOD for 98% of good things in life…

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  1. Priya says

    6/18/2005 at 12:02 am

    beautiful…
    thanks for sharing this…alot to learn in just one line…

    Reply
  2. Ankur says

    6/18/2005 at 9:20 pm

    Welcome Priya 🙂

    Reply
  3. Govind says

    6/19/2005 at 11:49 pm

    Wow, nice post. Thanks for sharing the story with us Ankur. 🙂

    Reply
  4. Poonam says

    6/20/2005 at 3:29 am

    Good one Ankur. :clap:

    Arthur Ashe was a good man with many talents. Good post!

    Reply
  5. Aaina says

    6/20/2005 at 9:26 am

    Oh wow…how poignant! That’s true though, now that I think about it. Thanks for the great post!:clap:

    Reply
  6. Ankur says

    6/20/2005 at 8:57 pm

    It was really a great one, it was presented by a speaker on Personality Development, Mr Suneel Keswani at ICSI meeting held on Friday here in New Delhi. Will write more about it… in a separate post 🙂

    Reply
  7. Ashok says

    5/24/2006 at 2:42 pm

    Arthur Ashe never used words like crore and lakh… This is an Indian version.

    And one of his most famous quotes is “From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.”

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